Senior Project / Programme Manager | PMO & Governance Lead | Defence & Cyber Programmes
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Senior Project and Programme Manager with over 25 years' experience delivering complex engineering, defence, IT and transformation programmes within highly regulated and safety-critical environments.
Engineer and experienced PMO leader with a strong track record of establishing governance frameworks, improving delivery assurance and managing multi-million-pound programmes across MOD, defence and aerospace sectors. Experienced in coordinating multi-partner delivery environments involving government stakeholders, engineering teams, suppliers and commercial partners. Strong capability across project controls, governance, risk management, stakeholder engagement, change management and programme delivery assurance.
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Led engineering and operations teams delivering defence production, repair and upgrade programmes. Delivered Lean improvements increasing right-first-time performance by 28% and improving margins by 4%.
BEng (Hons) - Information Technology - Royal Military College of Science
HNC - Avionics - RAF Apprenticeship
